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 The Women Film Critics Circle Awards 
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The Women Film Critics Circle is an association of women film critics and reporters from around the country, who are involved in print, radio, online and TV broadcast media. We have come together to form the first women critics association in the country, in the belief that women's perspectives and voices in film criticism need to be recognized fully.

Best Picture by a Woman
Valerie Faris, Little Miss Sunshine

Best Picture About Women (Tie)
Volver
The Queen

Best Woman Storyteller (Screenwriter)
Aline Brosh McKenna, The Devil Wears Prada

Best Actress
Helen Mirren, The Queen

Best Actor
Djimon Hounsou, Blood Diamond

Best Comedic Performance
Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada

Best Young Actress
Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine

Best Female Images in a Movie (Tie)
Sweet Land - Elizabeth Reaser
Somethig New - Sanaa Lathan

Best Foreign Film
Deepa Mehta, Water

Best Music
Dreamgirls

Adrienne Shelly Award -- For a film most passionately opposing violence against women:
Florence Ayisi and Kim Longinotto, Sisters In Law

Josephine Baker Award -- For best expressing the woman of color experience in America:
Heather MacDonald, Been Rich All My Life

Karen Morley Award -- For best exemplifying a woman's place in history or society, and a courageous search for identity:
Sweet Land - Elizabeth Reaser
Room - Cyndi Williams

Lifetime Achievement Award
Barbara Kopple

Aging and Activism
Sharon Stone

Best Documentaries -- In Recognition Of Women’s Excellence In The Documentary Category, In Light Of Their General Exclusion From Mainstream Film Making:

Above and Beyond:
The Ground Truth - Patricia Foulkrod
The War Tapes - Deborah Scranton

Groundbreaker
Jesus Camp - Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady

Courage in Film Making
Dixie Chicks: Shut Up And Sing - Barbara Kopple
The Color Of Olives - Carolina Rivas

Best Equality of the Sexes
Ellen Page, Hard Candy

Most Offensive Male Characters
Sacha Baron Cohen, Borat
Jason Statham, Crank

WFCC Top Ten Hall of Shame
Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction
Loverboy
Sorry, Haters
Turistas
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
Shadowboxer
Venus
The Quiet
Heading South
Mini's First Time

Best Animated Females
Happy Feet - Brittany Murphy and Nicole Kidman

Best Family Films (Non-animated)
Lassie
Nanny McPhee
Miss Potter

Peace,
Mike.


Sat Dec 16, 2006 1:36 am
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A negative mention for Venus (under their Hall of Shame), and Sacha Baron Cohen for Borat (Most Offensive Male Characters).

Heh.

Peace,
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Sat Dec 16, 2006 1:39 am
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Oh, shut up, women's film critics (about Borat).


Sat Dec 16, 2006 2:01 am
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Oh, women.


Sat Dec 16, 2006 5:52 am
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:lol: at Venus and Borat..


and Basic Instinct 2 is not that bad either, eheh :mad: (oh, but they have Stone under Aging and activism - yay! :biggrin: )


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